Gay Marriage Acceptance or No Jobs

WHAT AGENDA?! Did I miss orientation or something? People keep talking about this gay agenda and I keep asking at bookstores for it but the cashiers
always give me weird looks and then ask for security.

Originally posted by Dendro
So for 21 years you have conveniently missed all the passages in Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy where God condones and even calls for slavery? Wow,
that is some inactive reading.

Nope, never did miss them. All you guys do is take stuff out of context. Why don't you do the research that I have done over the years and see if God
really approved of slavery.

If by research you mean read the Bible, I have, and it does condone/promote/allow slavery. God even sanctions laws around it about selling your
daughter into bondage and what to do if you somehow end up purchasing your own brother.

Context: The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

I'm still waiting for an accurate and honest answer then why in the context of Leviticus do some Christians still okay the part about homosexuality
being wrong but vetoed the sections on shrimp, clothing and grooming?

Is Shrimp on the same level of sinfulness as Homosexuality? Well, they are both regarded to as being abominations. Can one thing be more of an
abomination than another? Does one apply a spectrum to this?

Originally posted by Varemia
Right, that's why we have a SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE, such that NO religion can make itself the ruling doctrine and infringe upon the freedoms
of the people to practice the religions they want to.
You do know that this country was founded on the idea of freedom, right?

There is no separation of Church and State in the Constitution. The Constitution states this in the 1st Amendment:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;"

Your reference to the Separation of Church and State came from Thomas Jefferson. He wrote in reply to the Dansbury Baptist who were afraid that a
certain "denomination" could be the official state denomination of America.
That's what the Pilgrims were running from in England. They didn't want a church state in America. The Founders did use Christian principles to
setup the American government and everyone was free to worship as they wished.

Originally posted by Varemia
Why the heck did you bring up Leviticus then? That's Jewish law only.

And I'm not forcing my personal beliefs on you. I am asking you not to force yours on the people around you. You CAN keep your beliefs to yourself.
Homosexuals CAN'T, because they are being denied equal protection of their unions under law!

I never brought up Leviticus. People like you want Christians to stay quiet while you run us over. I won't be run over. I don't want my kids exposed
to a filthy, disease ridden homosexual lifestyle. A union is between a man and a woman because Jesus stated that in Mark 10:6 and then He references
it back to Genesis, in the beginning. Since it was man and woman in the beginning that is the norm. Anything other than that is not the norm.
You'd figure that people would be smart and would try to help the homosexuals out of their lifestyle of death. They have the highest rates of disease
among the population according to CDC statistics.

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of
enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against any
Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties, that no pretext arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony
existing between the two countries

Treaty of Tripoli- Article 11 ratified in 1797 by the United States Senate. I would think that puts a hole in a few arguments.

Originally posted by Dendro
WHAT AGENDA?! Did I miss orientation or something? People keep talking about this gay agenda and I keep asking at bookstores for it but the cashiers
always give me weird looks and then ask for security.

GSA, they have an agenda to stop homophobia. Then you have a Massachusetts school that forced homosexual stuff on kids without parental permission.
Then you have the stuff of TV that kids watch.
I would highly encourage you to read this book called, "The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today".

Well if saving people from committing suicide is an agenda, I guess I have one. I would rather have that as my goal than the other side which is to
force people so far into hiding they want to kill themselves.

hahaha, I have some learning to do? Hogwash. Behavior is not a right. That bigot definition sounds just like what homosexuals do also. Man and woman
came first, not man and man and not woman and woman.

Originally posted by Dendro
If by research you mean read the Bible, I have, and it does condone/promote/allow slavery. God even sanctions laws around it about selling your
daughter into bondage and what to do if you somehow end up purchasing your own brother.

Show me the verses and I'll show you how your out of context.

Originally posted by Dendro
I'm still waiting for an accurate and honest answer then why in the context of Leviticus do some Christians still okay the part about homosexuality
being wrong but vetoed the sections on shrimp, clothing and grooming?

Those Christians are out of context also. Christians do not obey Jewish laws. We follow Jesus.

Show me the verses where Jesus is against homosexuality. What Jesus IS AGAINST is sexual relations outside of marriage so by denying the gay community
the ability to marry you are in fact forcing them to sin and then condemn them for it. Anyone else see something wrong with this standpoint?

Here are the passages about Slavery (Physical bondage and sexual slavery included too):

BOTH male and female parental roles are required. A child who grows up with two lesbian parents, will grow up warped and confused, having been
denied the privilege of a NORMAL home.

I'd like to see the scientific evidence of this. The website you linked is nothing but a large slanted opinion piece by a hate monger. The question I
pose to the religious folk is this: Genesis 1:26 says "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the
fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So why
would he create homosexuals? I would like a straight logical answer (terrible pun intended).

I will never understand why a 3rd party feels they have the right to keep two (or more) people who love each other apart. Do you not see you are
arguing against LOVE. According to my religion, actions against love are sins.

Good luck with that. What are you going to do? Construct a parallel reality for your family to exist in? See, I'm more worried about children living
in a world of genocide, murder, rape, and war. I always find it baffling that in the face of such horrors, people are so concerned with things like
homosexuality. Priorities, man.

Besides that, of course homosexual workers are going to look for jobs in states that allow them the same marital rights as straight couples. This
article is just pointing out the obvious, not uncovering some new weapon in the arsenal of the so-called "gay agenda".

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